Tara Singh (Sikh prince)

Tara Singh
Born(1807-12-04)4 December 1807
Batala, Sikh Empire, now Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India
Died1859(1859-00-00) (aged 51–52)
Dasuya, Hoshiarpur
SpouseDharam Kaur Randhawa
HouseSukerchakia
FatherMaharaja Ranjit Singh
MotherMaharani Mehtab Kaur Kanhaiyā

Kunwar Tara Singh (4 December 1807 – 1859), sometimes styled as Shahzada, was the younger of the twin sons of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of Sikh Empire and his first wife Maharani Mehtab Kaur. His elder twin brother was Maharaja Sher Singh, who briefly became the ruler of the Sikh Empire from 1841 until his death in 1843.[1]

It is said that his actual mother was Manki, a Muslim servant in the household of Sada Kaur. He died in 1859, after the Sikh war.[2]

  1. ^ Griffin, Lepel Henry (1890). The Panjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab. Civil and Military Gazette Press.
  2. ^ Griffin, Lepel Henry (1890). The Panjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab. Civil and Military Gazette Press.